November 7, 2020, TORONTO, ON — Waterfront Toronto, along with Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Catherine McKenna, Ontario Minister of Infrastructure Laurie Scott and City of Toronto Mayor John Tory announced that the new Cherry Street North bridge has arrived in Toronto’s Harbour today, as the Port Lands Flood Protection project reaches a new milestone.  

Waterfront Toronto hosted an "arrival" watch party on its Facebook page to mark this important moment as the Cherry Street North bridge concluded its maritime journey. 

New project will deliver over 250,000 square feet of contemporary, mass timber office space to Toronto’s eastern waterfront

The Port Lands will eventually be home to approximately 25,000 residents and 30,000 jobs. 

POSTED: OCTOBER 29, 2019 
BY: AARON BARTER
 

Flood protection essential to waterfront redevelopment and revitalization

Today in the Port Lands, Waterfront Toronto and all three orders of government took another important step for waterfront revitalization by breaking ground on a new river valley as part of the Port Lands Flood Protection project, one of the most ambitious construction projects in Toronto's history.

POSTED: OCTOBER 16, 2017
BY: AARON BARTER
 

Once completed in 2024, Port Lands Flood Protection will create a new mouth for the Don River, river valley, parkland and natural habitat. The new 1,000-metre river valley will run through the Port Lands, south of the existing Shipping Channel, creating a new island, which we’re calling Villiers Island.    
 

The Lower Don Lands - a 125 hectare (308 acre) area that runs from the Parliament Street Slip east to the Don Roadway and from the rail corridor south to the Ship Channel - is Waterfront Toronto’s most complex and ambitious project to date. Planning for the area needed to address a myriad of requirements and challenges including flood protection, infrastructure, urban design and transportation, plus a comprehensive process was needed to produce a master vision to integrate the various components.